Saving Pi for later

[Folkhero]

I have an RP3 with a WD PI hard drive and I'm wondering how to save my Libre documents to the hard drive.
I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer so please keep it simple.

Folkhero

[W. H. Heydt]

Unlike Windows, a Linuux system has what looks like a seamless file system across all mass storage devices. It is a hierarchy of directories.

If you have set up your PiDrive to have the root file system (starting with "/"), then when you save your files to your home directory (e.g. /home/pi) or--better yet--a directory within your home directory, say /home/pi/documents, the files will be on the PiDrive.

If your PiDrive is not your root file system, then it will be mounted somewhere, probably in /media/pi (assuming a reasonably current version of Raspbian Jessie). You can create directories on the drive and save your files there.

Your best bet would be to read up a bit on how the Linux filesystem behaves and then decide where you want the drive mounted and what directories to create on it.

[Dis93]

Saving Pi for later

I can never resist another slice...

(I'll get me coat)

[asandford]

Unlike Windows, a Linuux system has what looks like a seamless file system across all mass storage devices. It is a hierarchy of directories.

Windows can mount partitions as folders, just like unix. I have a seamless filesystem on Win2012 R2 with 5 iscsi drives presented as directories.

[W. H. Heydt]

Unlike Windows, a Linuux system has what looks like a seamless file system across all mass storage devices. It is a hierarchy of directories.

Windows can mount partitions as folders, just like unix. I have a seamless filesystem on Win2012 R2 with 5 iscsi drives presented as directories.

Can...but doesn't do it by default. I would hazard a guess that relatively few people have multiple drives at mount points looking like a seamless system. (Of course, not that many Windows users have more than one HDD/SSD in the first place, though it's probably becoming more common as the use of SSDs spreads. It will also probably decline again as SSDs get larger and cheaper.)